Re: [gentoo-user] Recommended printer?
On Oct 23, 2011 6:59 AM, Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: Grant wrote: Cheapest laser you can find at Office Depot tends to be a Brother. I've got two...an HL-2040 and an HL-2140. Both work perfectly with CUPS. +1. Every Brother laser printer I've tried works perfectly. I don't even bother with linuxprinting.org any more. When I wear one laser printer out, I just buy the latest Brother. - Grant I used to work for a computer place and we sold and serviced Brother stuff. They were well made back then. I haven't used one in a long while but it sounds like they still make good stuff. I always liked that they had metal gears and stuff when everyone else had went to plastic. Epsons were good at going with plastic, even on their higher end stuff. They would strip out regular too. Get a good paper jam, you need a set of gears. My fav was the Genicom line printer tho. We had several 4440s and they were blazingly fast. A case of paper was like pouring water out of a jug. o_O Although some metal gears have given way to plastic stuffs, I can still vouch for their reliability. My office had one, and it's generally abused, yet it still chugs along merrily. Truly gave my boss a mid-life crisis: He's a champion of a two-letter brand, and his worldview came crashing to the ground when the Brother proved itself to be more reliable than his preferred brand ;-) Rgds,
Re: [gentoo-user] Recommended printer?
Cheapest laser you can find at Office Depot tends to be a Brother. I've got two...an HL-2040 and an HL-2140. Both work perfectly with CUPS. +1. Every Brother laser printer I've tried works perfectly. I don't even bother with linuxprinting.org any more. When I wear one laser printer out, I just buy the latest Brother. - Grant On Oct 20, 2011 8:35 PM, Michael J. Barillier blackw...@blackwolfinfosys.net wrote: I've wasted enough time beating on my current boat anchor of a printer hoping it'll start working. linuxprinting.org is currently offline, so in the meantime does anyone have a suggestion for an inexpensive printer that is known to work with cupsd and Gentoo?
Re: [gentoo-user] Recommended printer?
Grant wrote: Cheapest laser you can find at Office Depot tends to be a Brother. I've got two...an HL-2040 and an HL-2140. Both work perfectly with CUPS. +1. Every Brother laser printer I've tried works perfectly. I don't even bother with linuxprinting.org any more. When I wear one laser printer out, I just buy the latest Brother. - Grant I used to work for a computer place and we sold and serviced Brother stuff. They were well made back then. I haven't used one in a long while but it sounds like they still make good stuff. I always liked that they had metal gears and stuff when everyone else had went to plastic. Epsons were good at going with plastic, even on their higher end stuff. They would strip out regular too. Get a good paper jam, you need a set of gears. My fav was the Genicom line printer tho. We had several 4440s and they were blazingly fast. A case of paper was like pouring water out of a jug. o_O Dale :-) :-)
Re: [gentoo-user] Recommended printer?
On 10/21/2011 02:32:42 AM, Michael J. Barillier wrote: I've wasted enough time beating on my current boat anchor of a printer hoping it'll start working. linuxprinting.org is currently offline, so in the meantime does anyone have a suggestion for an inexpensive printer that is known to work with cupsd and Gentoo? I've made some bad (strange) experiences with printers connected via USB (under CUPS). Therefore, I've bought a Kyocera FS-1028MFP. It has an ethernet connection built in. I can print duplex, copy duplex (even a duplex document feeder) and has a scanner (even in color), sending the file via ftp. Kyocera is known for very low operating costs. Helmut -- Helmut Jarausch Lehrstuhl fuer Numerische Mathematik RWTH - Aachen University D 52056 Aachen, Germany
Re: [gentoo-user] Recommended printer?
On Fri, Oct 21, 2011 at 6:20 PM, Helmut Jarausch jarau...@igpm.rwth-aachen.de wrote: On 10/21/2011 02:32:42 AM, Michael J. Barillier wrote: I've wasted enough time beating on my current boat anchor of a printer hoping it'll start working. linuxprinting.org is currently offline, so in the meantime does anyone have a suggestion for an inexpensive printer that is known to work with cupsd and Gentoo? I've made some bad (strange) experiences with printers connected via USB (under CUPS). Therefore, I've bought a Kyocera FS-1028MFP. It has an ethernet connection built in. I can print duplex, copy duplex (even a duplex document feeder) and has a scanner (even in color), sending the file via ftp. Kyocera is known for very low operating costs. [snip] Kyocera printers are very nice. I have a FS-1030D which doesn't have ethernet as standard however I purchased it as an option. Mine is a fairly basic device though it supports IPv6, POP3/SMTP, SNMP, and a whole bunch of other stuff. Really happy with mine. Had it for about 3-5 years I guess. Mike
Re: [gentoo-user] Recommended printer?
On Fri, 21 Oct 2011 09:20:22 +0200, Helmut Jarausch wrote: Therefore, I've bought a Kyocera FS-1028MFP. Nice looking printer, but it hardly meets the OP's criterion of inexpensive :-O Michael, you have said whether you want laser or inkjet, colour or mono, MFP or just printing, but I'll second the recommendation for HP gear. They provide Linux drivers that integrate with CUPS and work reliably IMO. -- Neil Bothwick Hard work has a future payoff. Laziness pays off NOW! signature.asc Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] Recommended printer?
Am Donnerstag 20 Oktober 2011, 20:32:42 schrieb Michael J. Barillier: I've wasted enough time beating on my current boat anchor of a printer hoping it'll start working. linuxprinting.org is currently offline, so in the meantime does anyone have a suggestion for an inexpensive printer that is known to work with cupsd and Gentoo? Samsung colour laser printer? CLP-315? not the latest model, was cheap to begin with. Works with cups. Works better when you copy two files from the samsung linux driver. -- #163933
Re: [gentoo-user] Recommended printer?
On Fri, Oct 21, 2011 at 11:06 AM, Volker Armin Hemmann volkerar...@googlemail.com wrote: Am Donnerstag 20 Oktober 2011, 20:32:42 schrieb Michael J. Barillier: I've wasted enough time beating on my current boat anchor of a printer hoping it'll start working. linuxprinting.org is currently offline, so in the meantime does anyone have a suggestion for an inexpensive printer that is known to work with cupsd and Gentoo? Samsung colour laser printer? CLP-315? not the latest model, was cheap to begin with. Works with cups. Works better when you copy two files from the samsung linux driver. We have a SAMSUNG CLP-315 here at the office. I've managed to print to it over the network from CUPS, so, yeah, it works. If you want color presentable for anything more than powerpoint, though, go with an inkjet over the SAMSUNG, or go with a higher-grade color laser from someone else. There's no ICC profiles for these printers that I can find, and the print dpi is terrible. That said, the CLP-315 supports IPP out of the box, which makes it trivial to add as a network printer from both Linux and Windows. It certainly has that going for it. You'll want to set up two different logical printers, though, one for color, one for black and white. Otherwise, the printer will engage the color toner cartridges for b/w print jobs, decrementing their life counters even if toner wasn't really necessary for them. -- :wq
Re: [gentoo-user] Recommended printer?
On Friday 21 Oct 2011 04:15:11 Dale wrote: Michael J. Barillier wrote: I've wasted enough time beating on my current boat anchor of a printer hoping it'll start working. linuxprinting.org is currently offline, so in the meantime does anyone have a suggestion for an inexpensive printer that is known to work with cupsd and Gentoo? I have always had good luck with HP. So far, all have worked fine. Heck, I even got one at Walmart real cheap once and it worked for several years. The ink is what gets me tho. $$$ Yes, cheap printers have expensive ink (how else are the OEMs going to make money)? I recall reading a comparison study some time ago where different printers were compared to each other at various price points. Expensive ink and unnecessarily wasteful printing-head cleaning cycles were the two main causes for not jumping on the first cheap printer on sale. My experience with HP has also been trouble free. -- Regards, Mick signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.
[gentoo-user] Recommended printer?
I've wasted enough time beating on my current boat anchor of a printer hoping it'll start working. linuxprinting.org is currently offline, so in the meantime does anyone have a suggestion for an inexpensive printer that is known to work with cupsd and Gentoo? -- Michael J. Barillier // http://blackwolfinfosys.net/users/blackwolf/ _O_| ``Ignorance breeds monsters to fill up the vacancies of the soul __O| that are unoccupied by the verities of knowledge.'' OOO| -- Horace Mann
Re: [gentoo-user] Recommended printer?
Cheapest laser you can find at Office Depot tends to be a Brother. I've got two...an HL-2040 and an HL-2140. Both work perfectly with CUPS. On Oct 20, 2011 8:35 PM, Michael J. Barillier blackw...@blackwolfinfosys.net wrote: I've wasted enough time beating on my current boat anchor of a printer hoping it'll start working. linuxprinting.org is currently offline, so in the meantime does anyone have a suggestion for an inexpensive printer that is known to work with cupsd and Gentoo? -- Michael J. Barillier // http://blackwolfinfosys.net/users/blackwolf/ _O_| ``Ignorance breeds monsters to fill up the vacancies of the soul __O| that are unoccupied by the verities of knowledge.'' OOO| -- Horace Mann
Re: [gentoo-user] Recommended printer?
On Thu, Oct 20, 2011 at 8:32 PM, Michael J. Barillier blackw...@blackwolfinfosys.net wrote: I've wasted enough time beating on my current boat anchor of a printer hoping it'll start working. linuxprinting.org is currently offline, so in the meantime does anyone have a suggestion for an inexpensive printer that is known to work with cupsd and Gentoo? My 2¢ http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16828104014
Re: [gentoo-user] Recommended printer?
Michael J. Barillier wrote: I've wasted enough time beating on my current boat anchor of a printer hoping it'll start working. linuxprinting.org is currently offline, so in the meantime does anyone have a suggestion for an inexpensive printer that is known to work with cupsd and Gentoo? I have always had good luck with HP. So far, all have worked fine. Heck, I even got one at Walmart real cheap once and it worked for several years. The ink is what gets me tho. $$$ Dale :-) :-)
